THE WAGES QUESTION

A Treatise on
Wages and the Wages Class

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byFRANCIS A. WALKER, M.A., Ph.D.

Professor of Political Economy and History, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College.Late Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Statistics; Superintendentof the Ninth Census; Author of the StatisticalAtlas of the United States.

The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.